Oscar De La Hoya accuses Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson of being ‘scripted’

Oscar De La Hoya thinks there was one thing fishy happening for final week’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match.

Though there’s no actual proof, many on-line have questioned the validity of Paul’s unanimous choice win over Tyson final Friday on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. De La Hoya, a former boxing world champion and now promoter, can also be on that boat, as he lately accused Paul of staging the combat with Tyson – which might be unlawful.

“Everyone seems to be speaking about how staged this combat was, and I do imagine it was scripted, and I imagine that Tyson was definitely held again,” De La Hoya mentioned on Instagram. “Look, I’m a fighter, and I can see it. It goes on their document and it was sanctioned. So Jake Paul paid to get the W on his document, for what? To your personal private satisfaction?

“I maintain telling you, if you wish to be an actual fighter prefer to say you wish to be, what are you doing? Like, who’s subsequent? Joe Biden? It’s important to combat actual fighters. Nevertheless, the combat drew 65 million households, which suggests roughly 200 million eyeballs have been watching, and the large winners have been Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, who placed on an unbelievable actual combat that have been launched to new followers all over the world.”

Paul and Tyson fought in an eight-round boxing match in entrance of an estimated crowd of greater than 70,000 individuals on the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium. There was additionally a reported 108 million dwell world viewers on Netflix – the platform the occasion streamed on.

Paul, 27, is now 5-0 since struggling his first professional loss, which got here towards Tommy Fury again in 2023. He’s 11-1 in his total professional boxing profession. In the meantime. Tyson, 58, fought professionally for the primary time since his loss to Kevin McBride in 2005. He did compete in an exhibition bout in 2020, preventing fellow legend Roy Jones Jr. to a draw.